2006jul21. I promised myself I would never write about Sudoku. I promise myself a lot of things. [makes pouty face in mirror] Sudoku Combat is a head-to-head version, it keeps me on my toes. But there are two certain types of players that drive me nuts (along with tight butts). (1) The person who realizes they are being beaten, and then they quit the game. Lots of people play faster than me, but that doesn’t stop me, because sometimes these people are too fast for their own good, they slip up and that’s when I’m behind them, running them up and down with the glistening, steel-forged shiv of pure logic. (2) The person who doesn’t enter anything for a long time ... then suddenly starts entering numbers wholesale, like they were on fire, the numbers were. This is an idiot who has punched the board configuration into another program that solves the puzzle. It’s not really cheating, it’s more like accounting or data-entry.
